Bad Business: Spurs vs Newcastle. 25/26 Handicap Champs. FCC Holding Müller Hostage.

Sam's Army

Samuel Army

Soccer, Sports

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

PREMIER LEAGUE: are Tottenham or Newcastle having a worse summer; the one position Manchester United need to upgrade most; Xhaka to Sunderland; updated transfer grade for Arsenal (post-Gyokeres) and way-too-early predictions for 2025/26 PL Handicap Champs

HALFTIME: Tyler Terens-related Weekly What If

ROUND THE WORLD: thoughts on preseason North London Daerby in... Hong Kong plus MLS hit-it-n-quit-it minute

STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

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0:00.0	All right, everybody, welcome back Sam's Army.
0:14.2	Summer Soccery Silly season episode 10.
0:16.8	We got a lot to talk about this week.
0:18.6	We're going to start with Premier League,
0:19.8	where we'll talk Spurs versus Newcastle, Jacquesa, to Sunderland and the 2025-26 handicap champs.
0:28.4	Half-time will be a Tyler Terrans related weekly what-if.
0:31.4	Round the world, MLS Minute and a League's Cup sales pitch.
0:36.2	Stoppage time will be Ivan Tony's best bets and everyone's favorite segment go, as per usual.
0:41.3	Now, time to welcome in this week's panel of beauties, starting with Mitchell Goulet,
0:47.4	aka overtime Mitch, who is fresh off a trip to Austin for the MLS All-Star festivities,
0:56.4	which we'll get into a little bit more in a bit.
1:01.4	But give us your personal highlights and lowlights from the excursion, Mitch.
1:02.4	Ooh.
1:06.3	Highlights were the MLS hospitality.
1:08.1	They treated us right.
1:09.4	Got a lot of little gifts.
1:10.6	Got a lot of, yeah. No, no, no, you'd be surprised. Once a year, they roll out the red carpet for folks like me. And I was one of the only soccer-specific, a silent thumbs up from Tyler. I was one of the only soccer-specific media outlets in this press trip. There was like a food vlogger. There was a tech person. There was a fashion person. Yeah, they kind of brought in people from all walks of life. So I got to meet new friends. But the food, the experiences, all together. And I'm not just saying this because I want to go come back. They know how to treat a lady. Let me tell you. So that was one of the highlights. Sebastian Berhalter was like, he like walked over to me. He was like, yo, it was good. Overtime Mitch in the building. And that was kind of cool. You know, so he's forever stamped in my boat. And then the low light, dude, it's hot.
2:04.0	It's so hot in Austin, Texas.
2:08.9	This is my first time there, and I saw folks running at like 2 p.m. insane.
2:13.4	It's a hundred degrees minimum without humidity.
2:16.4	It's just an insane level of hot.
2:18.8	There's no shade to be seen anywhere in the city.
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